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In the beginning, 1 January 1970, there were no paradigms only math and it was good. Before object oriented programming was invented there were no objects. It wasn't until 1967 that Alan Kay invented objects. This was when things started to go downhill. Before objects associations couldn't be made. What is the relationship between a person and a name? Who knows, that would be an object.
# What are objects?
Objects are implemented as referencesObjects consist of functions and data. That's it. Which is a neat idea when the alternative is reading assembly instructions and tracking registers. Some people refer to functions as methods; they are wrong.
# Why is it the most popular paradigm?
In the day that OOP came out software engineers faced different problems. If you programmed in assembly, or C you would think in data structures and algorithms instead of "Objects" object oriented programming states you should encapusulate common functionality and data together.